Trenary joins QB teammate with Rams

March 27, 2013

INWOOD - Andru Trenary always had an inkling that he would end up at Shepherd.

For the Musselman senior, it was always like home.

Trenary spent a lot of time in Shepherdstown, making the 45-minute trek to Rams football games with his family on fall Saturdays for the last decade.

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"Even when I was putting a list of schools together, my heart has always been with Shepherd," the center said. "I knew from going down there and watching football games, it was just what I wanted to do. For me, Shepherd was always the goal for me. (Shepherd) pretty much is the standard for excellence in NCAA-Division II football."

It will continue to feel like home for the 6-foot-3, 295-pound Trenary.

This fall the center will room with his high school teammate and quarterback, Caleb Dembeck.

"We talked last summer about how great it would be to go the same school as a center-quarterback duo," Trenary said. "The chemistry between us as far as snaps go is pretty good. We've been snapping the ball since we were like 11, 12 years old."

They've been working out together since the end of football season and recently started a college workout program.

"Ever since the last game (a playoff loss to eventual Martinsburg) we've been working hard," Trenary said. "I think we have the same work ethic. That is a big plus."

For Trenary, strength has never been a problem. He is a big advocate of the weight room. That's often where he can be found.

He has won several bench press contests at football camps and combines and rarely got beat by brute strength alone during his final two seasons in high school.

Trenary said he experienced a little bit of what's to come when he played in the NUC All-American game Dec. 22 in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

If the game showed Trenary, who was a starting center for the North squad, anything, it's that he needs to improve his speed.

"It ended up being a great week, and the nicest thing about it is a got a sneak peek at the kind of speed I'll be playing against at the next level," Trenary said. "There were no mediocre players in the game. I found that when I was able to get a body on those guys, I pretty much took them down easily. I had five pancake blocks in that game.

"There were times when they were a little quicker than I was. So I have been working hard to get more explosion, to get off the ball quicker.

Whether or not he plays this season is not his utmost concern.

"I don't think it's near as important to play immediately," Trenary said. "My main concern is to get there. I want to be able to get on that learning curve, figure out how to they do things, the system, how they practice.

"My main goal is to get on the field as soon as possible, but to do that I have to be ready."